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Use wallpaper paste. Mix the powder with water and apply by brush or which ever other method you use for burnishing. Works great !

Hi all, after reading the helpful and detailed advice one can get here, I thought that I would try my luck as well. I am a saddler in Germany, I learned from the old German masters, and my specialty lies in reflocking and fitting saddles. Although I have made quite a few MacClellan trail saddles with felt skirts, I have taken on a more ambitious project of making an endurance saddle with English style flaps and knee rolls. I have all the patterns, have even cast a tree from urethane and made molds for the foam seat and knee rolls. However my question is: what is the sewing procedure for sewing the binding onto the sweat flaps...ie the front binding that covers the sweat flap leather and the thinner panel leather around the knee rolls. It is a bit of an egg or chicken case,(what gets done first) the space between the knee roll and the binding looks so limited, I just don´t seem to see how even my large binding machine would get past. Presumably if I sat for hours pondering, I might get to the bottom of this, but my non-virtuous patience needs a more spontaneous answer, so I have decided to contact the experts. Any help on this will be hugely appreciated.